The reopening of Palazzo Pallavicini is a major event for the town of Bologna. First of all it is a very important restitution because it is a ‘palazzo senatorio’ built for Senators Isolani and Alamandini in accordance with the ‘senatorial’ architectural criteria that...

It is the authentic taste of an Italian summer – something so much fruitier and more flavoursome than mere ice cream.
In any other country, the recipe for gelato would be a closely-guarded state secret. But here in Bologna, there is a school where anyone can come to learn the frozen art....

There's something of a fairy-tale quality about the Umberto Cesari story: it all started back in the early 1960s when Umberto worked with his father at the family restaurant in central Bologna and was continually frustrated by the local wine-makers' strategy of putting quantity over quality when it came...

Have you ever dreamt about the possibility to have a university degree focused in luxury cars and motorcycle engineering?

The dream of every child to be able to work in one of the most advanced, and always up-to-date, sector, now it has become a reality.
There are two brand new master's degree programs in ...

Founded in 1954, in Bologna, by the talented corsetry maker Ada Masotti, who was given the nickname "golden scissors" for her exacting cutting and tailoring abilities, La Perla is the leading Italian lingerie and beachwear maison. Artisanal heritage, knowledge of the female body, blend of innovation and tradition and Italian identity are the founding...

The largest labryrinth in the world was created at Fontanellato from an idea of Franco Maria Ricci, publisher, designer, art collector and bibliophile, and a promise he made in 1977 to the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, who has always been fascinated by the symbol of the labyrinth, also a metaphor of the human condition. There are labyrinths with...